Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 54
The birds also thought they would have to offer their ruler as a wife to this wonderful stranger.
Who acts: birds · What happens: think, have, offer · To what, where: ruler · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life [1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 birds | det |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 offer | mark |
| 9 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | xcomp |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ruler | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offer | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 wife | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offer | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 stranger | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 stranger | det |
| 17 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stranger | amod |
| 18 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the birds | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | would | birds = bird | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | offer | to-infinitive | birds = bird not said here | birds's ruler | as a wife to this wonderful stranger | vn volunteer-95.4 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent ruler=Pivot as wife=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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